Visakhapatnam Port is one of the leading major ports of India. The Port is located
on the east coast of India in between Chennai and Kolkata at a latitude of 17042' 00'' North
and longitude of 83023' 00'' East and the time zone
is GMT + 5:30. The Port has three harbours viz., outer harbour, inner harbour and
the fishing harbour. The outer harbour with a water spread of 200 hectares has 6
berths and the inner harbour with a water spread of 100 hectares has
18 berths.

Bestowed with natural deep-water basins, the outer harbour is capable
of accommodating vessels up to 200,000 DWT and draft upto 18.1 meters.The inner harbour
is capable of accommodating fully laden Panamax vessels with draft upto 14.5 meters, with tide advantage.
I welcome you once again to the Visakhapatnam Port and
hope that you enjoy surfing through our website. Sri M.T. Krishna Babu, IAS
Chairman

Latest News

Port of Visakhapatnam has successfully berthed a vessel with a draft of 12.22 meters in the Inner Harbour for the first time.
The vessel NUEVA FORTUNA of Greece Nationality with LOA 189.99 meters, beam 32.26 meters and DWT 50992 is berthed on 4.2.2015 at the WQ-2 berth in the Inner harbour.
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A Recod of 41,808 Thermal Coal in bulk was loaded on 02-01-2015 at Quay-3 berth in to m.v. CHENNAI JAYAM

A Recod of 6057 tonnes of Alumina was loaded on 10-09-2014 at EQ-5 in to m.v. SEACLIFF

The VPT facility has been developed with a total investment of around Rs.400 crore to handle 27000 tonnes per hour with harbour mobile cranes of 100tonne capacity ultra modern wagon loaders and 2.1 KM long cnveyor system

"Hindi is the light of the nation" said Smt.Vineet Kulsresth, Joint Director, Ministry
of Shipping, Government of India to-day at Hindi inspection and Valedictory function
of Hindi Ustav held at Sri Sambamurthy auditorium, Port Administrative Office Building.
She started the programme by lighting the lamp as Chief Guest of the function. She
also said, Hindi implementation in VPT is appreciable and all the officers and employees
are working in Hindi with utmost dedication. Joint Director emphasized that VPT
is implementing Hindi in areas like hospital also and it is really noteworthy because
there the maximum business is with doctors, nurses and patients. She congratulated
VPT for it’s best efforts in the field of Hindi implementation.

Visakhapatnam Port Trust has signed the concession agreement on 17-12-2014 for the
PPP Project "Extension of Existing Container Terminal in Visakhapatnam Port on Design,
Build, Finance, Operate, Transfer (DBFOT) basis

Women's Day celebrations on Wednesday, the 11 th March 2015 at 11:00 a.m. at Sambamurthy
Auditorium, AOB Premises.To know more click here